Chill from the politics for a while and enjoy this.
The video is just under 5 minutes long and worth every second. Blow it up to full screen and select High Def if you have the bandwidth:
http://youtu.be/7ObnEpRccHM
At around 3:30, I was particularly surprised by the view of the Gulf of Mexico and the City of New Orleans. I noticed hundreds of dots of light to the south of it, which I thought were small towns in the bayous. It wasn't, it was oil rig lights.
Amazing stuff